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15 December 2005

The My Humps saga continues. "...hearing this song for the first time was 2005's most sobering musical experience."
My lovely lady lumps.

I cringe. I just cringe. It's just so abyssmally horrible.
posted by iconomy 15 December | 13:02
Being sung by a woman who pees herself on stage. So scary.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 December | 13:06
i laugh, because it's hilariously funny.
posted by flopsy 15 December | 13:08
Pitchfork sucks.

Carry on.
posted by jonmc 15 December | 13:10
I haven't heard the "Humps," song, and I probably wouldn't like it if I did, but dismissing a song because it's dumb, catchy and nonsensical would've robbed you of some of the great musical pleasures of the rock era: "Wooly Bully," "Surfin Bird," "Get A Job," "Tutti Frutti," "Louie Louie," ...and the list goes on and on. And such songs have aged much better than the "serious" products of their respective eras, too.
posted by jonmc 15 December | 13:13
Oh, I'm gonna make you listen to it at the next meetup, jonmc- I have it on my iPod.

(what? it's addictive, I can't heeeelp it!)
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 15 December | 13:14
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not dismissing it for any of those reasons - I'm dismissing it because it's horrible.
posted by iconomy 15 December | 13:16
I know, ico, and I'd probably agree if I heard it, but Pitchfork and their pseudo-intellectual hipster sophist ilk are.

(surely you saw that coming...)
posted by jonmc 15 December | 13:18
Yeah, it's B-tripleA-D BAD. It's just... it's... head-exploding bad and stoopid.

And how could that list not include Trapped in the Closet?!????
posted by papercake 15 December | 13:23
The advantages of being absolutely isolated in a motel room in The Middle of Nowhere, Northern Minnesota: I haven't heard this song. I thought the Black Eyed Peas did some sort of country rap? I figured this humps thing was kinda like the milkshake song of a few years ago.
posted by panoptican 15 December | 13:24
RE: Pitchfork.... I know this is going to take me down a notch in jonmc's eyes, but I read Pitchfork every day. I know they are a bunch of self-involved hipsters, but they have turned me on to some music that I like a lot.

Also, I have to agree with the author of the cited article that the first track on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is pretty unlistenable, although I love the rest of the album.
posted by matildaben 15 December | 13:26
I know this is going to take me down a notch in jonmc's eyes

Never happen, darling. But I'd recommend you read print mags like Ugly Things, MoJo, Wax Poetics, No Depression, and Web Sites like Perfect Sound Forever to be turned on to some much better stuff.
posted by jonmc 15 December | 13:28
I feel you matildaben. Pitchfork clued me in on a lot of good music. Though I usually had to guess what something would sound like based on the name dropping. I've stopped reading it though. There are about 8 billion blogs that do a better job of finding music and at the same time, present in a non self-involved hipster fashion. Plus they usually have mp3s so I can actually here what the music sounds like. In particular: Mystery and Misery, Largehearted Boy, Fat Planet, and cocaine blunts.
posted by panoptican 15 December | 13:31
I check myself for lovely lady lumps once a month.
posted by jrossi4r 15 December | 13:33
dismissing a song because it's dumb, catchy and nonsensical would've robbed you of some of the great musical pleasures of the rock era

But the songs you use as examples all had something else going for them-- they were dynamic, or melodic, or had a fine sense of rhythm, or they were performed brilliantly. My Humps isn't catchy in a good way at all-- not like a great popsong, where you just want to sing along. It's like the antithesis of all that.
posted by jokeefe 15 December | 13:34
Rehearsing my Choir wasn't particularly stellar, but it's hardly one of the worst of the year. And "You Look Good on the Dancefloor and the Band is Distracted and That's Why this Song is So Fucking Boring" isn't on the list?
posted by PinkStainlessTail 15 December | 13:36
I've got to take issue with their panning of Matisyahu. And Daft Punk's "Technologic." Othwise, I s'pose I'm lucky that I haven't heard of most of these.
posted by moonbird 15 December | 13:51
Read Mojo? But what if we already know about Cream/Led Zep/The Beatles/Deep Purple or Jimi Hendrix?

But thanks for turning me on to Perfect Sound Forever.
posted by klangklangston 15 December | 13:51
My roommate has the whole love/hate thing going on with "Humps." Sort of the way I felt about "Toxic"--you hate it, but you turn it up when it comes on the radio.
posted by SassHat 15 December | 13:55
MoJo does write about those old warhorses so well that it makes you wanna blow the dust off their records. And the other print mags I mentioned will lead you to some great stuff, too.

jokeefe: I'm not defending My Humps (god that's a weird sentence), just pointing out that all the songs I mentioned were dismissed as dumb, teenybopper trash, too.
posted by jonmc 15 December | 13:57
I read Pitchfork every day as well (among other music sites). It's one among many, and better written than most, though I hate that they slated Low's album this year, not to mention CocoRosie.

I don't really care too much about the hipster posturing one way or the other.
posted by jokeefe 15 December | 13:58
I listen to lots of types of music, not just indie rock, jon. And I do read No Depression quite often. I'll check out some of the others.
posted by matildaben 15 December | 14:03
I'm sure you do. I just have a bug up my ass about Pitchfork and their legions of trucker-hatted readers.

*loads shotgun, opens can of beans*
posted by jonmc 15 December | 14:10
Yeah, do you get, like, a jonmc signal or something that comes up whenever there's a p-fork mention here or on MeFi? The lights in the Joncave flash or something?

(And now that i hear they trashed the Cocorosie, maybe I can start reading 'em again...)
posted by klangklangston 15 December | 14:26
I'd like to point out that PFork has so jumped the shark that they can't even give me one reason for not liking Matisyahu. Who, for the record, I like a lot.
posted by YouCanCallMeAl 15 December | 14:43
Huh. I thought all the hipster posers loved pitchfork.

*looks at jonmc*
posted by iconomy 15 December | 14:55
they can't even give me one reason for not liking Matisyahu

The did! They pointed out that someone else liked it, ergo, they hate it.
posted by Capn 15 December | 14:56
That Daft Punk album was god-freakin-awful. I remember being so excited after the the musical journey that is Discover and man, what a disapointment.
posted by puke & cry 15 December | 17:19
I thought the Black Eyed Peas did some sort of country rap?

What an odd thing to think.
posted by delmoi 15 December | 19:16
That'd be Nappy Roots, who are far more fun to listen to than Black Eyed Peas.
posted by jonmc 15 December | 19:29
Holy Sh*t I'm mad. || Can we talk about poop for a minute?

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